June 21, 2016

A British man arrested at a weekend Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas tried to grab a police officer's gun so he could kill the presidential candidate after planning an assassination for about a year, according to authorities."

After the assassination attempt on Trump, shouldn't the media tone down the Trump hate?

Calls for civility are politically motivated, so this suggestion is just an effort to help Trump.

The media should be tough on Trump, but not at the he's-Hitler level, which may provoke violence.

This is a wake-up call to the media. They need to reset into a more sober, neutral mode.

Trump deserves all this hostility, from the press and from the people.

Is this more civility bullshit? No one should advocate violence (like that nut on Vox) but hate away. Just remember if you go overboard with your hate you lose your credibility, no matter who you're hating.

This is a highly charged year. I can see the nuts coming out a lot more. Interestingly there hasn't been a serious assassination attempt on a president or candidate since Reagan in '81. Either the Secret Service has gotten a lot better at heading off threats, or assassinations have gotten a lot more passé.

Ever since my Daddy named me Lee Harvey I knew I was born to a Mission.

Mom wanted to just name me 'Doug' after her brother but Daddy said there were no famous Dougs anywhere, and you had to give a boy Purpose right from the start. Daddy, he hated Presidents. Besides, Doug was in prison for a misunderstanding with a young girl and an ice cream cone, so Daddy said he ain't naming his boy after a child-poker, and that was that.

Heck, on his Deathbed Daddy said "Son, I thought you'd have killed yourself a President by now. I am disappointed in you." Then he died. So that was kind of rough, him dying disappointed in me and all. A lot to deal with when you're twelve.

It's not like I haven't tried. I got close to the President once, but the Secret Service caught me and forced me to go get drunk at a strip club with them. I woke up with a hooker that said if I would've had happened to kill the President she would've given me that blow-job for free. That would've been nice, because I blew a lot of cash in the Champagne Room with the Agents. If you were at a pawn shop that summer and bought a watch engraved LH on the back that was probably mine. Real nice Timex, too.

Just this past February I put some guns in the trunk and headed out to the Washington DC, but my transmission blew up just outside of Walla Walla. It was a Japanese car, too, I thought they built cars better than that. Wasted that three hundred dollars: Dad woulda no doubt kicked my ass for buying a Jap car in the first place. You can buy a fine American car for three hundred dollars, that's what he would've said.

So now I'm just kinda waitin' til the time seems right. For awhile I thought I'd warm up on a Mayor or something, but it would suck going to prison over just a mayor. Anyhow.

Daddy: I haven't forgotten. I'll make you proud, even if you are dead and all.

The father of a British man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump today revealed his 'insular' son had travelled to America to be with his girlfriend but had gone off the rails.Michael Steven Sandford, who appeared in court on Monday, tried to grab a police officer's gun and wanted to shoot the billionaire Republican presidential candidate on Saturday. His father Paul Davey told MailOnline he has no idea why his son would attempt to shoot the billionaire presidential candidate and claimed someone must have put the vulnerable boy 'up to it.'He also claims that he and Steven's mother Lynne told American authorities they were worried about Sandford but officials failed to act upon it. He said: 'He's been refusing to come back and we were worried about him, we were in contact with the American Embassy telling them we were worried about him. The American authorities said "he's over 18 we can't do anything".

He said: 'He's been refusing to come back and we were worried about him, we were in contact with the American Embassy telling them we were worried about him. The American authorities said "he's over 18 we can't do anything"

WTF does one have to do to get deported under this Admin? Question Obama's birth certificate? Support the Second Amendment?

The CBC here in Canada runs ten minute roasts of tweets their listeners send ridiculing Trump. Then when they stop howling in laughter the announcer gets very serious and says, "Ridicule is a weapon no one survives..." Then he' smiles again.

Of course this Brit was a perfect lone wolf type. If memory serves me ALL assassinations of Presidents and world leaders are done by Lone Wolves with No Connections to the CIA... None at all....ever...who could imagine such paranoia...ever.

If only we had proof of a Legty Brit fetish for assassinating US Presidents.

Death of a President is a 2006 British docudrama political thriller film about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President, on 19 October 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The film is presented as a future history docudrama and uses actors, archival video footage as well as computer-generated special effects to present the hypothetical aftermath the event had on civil liberties, racial profiling, journalistic sensationalism and foreign policy.

Reporting that Trump lies consistently, brazenly, and often contradicts himself, is not being "hard" on Trump, it is merely reporting the facts. Reporting that Trump's policy proposals will alienate our allies, increase the deficit, and are just impractical, is not being hard on Trump, it is merely reporting objective facts.

"You mean, like the Repugnants and GOP toned down the Obama hate over the past 7+ years.

And the eight years of Bush Derangement Syndrome before that (which lead to people saying things like "Repugnauts")."

And the assassination porn directed at Bush by the lefty nuts.

The big difference, and what is called "hate" by the lefties, is the fact that Obama came out of nowhere with no record. He was elected to the Senate after the Illinois GOP, a loyal member of the "Combine" blocked Peter FitzGerald, the incumbent Republican Senator and nominated a guy named Jack Ryan whose sealed divorce records were opened revealing some trash in a child custody case (Ex-wives never lie in custody cases) causing Ryan to drop out. The one contested election Obama had he lost to Bobby Seal, a black radical and Panther.

We kind of wondered who he was and were told to SHUT UP! Just a little suspicious. No college records. No roommates.

All your options are irrelevant. Anti-GOP, anti-christian/white/male violence doesn't matter. Hate that leads to violence agains the right kinds of people doesn't matter. Only hate and violence in the other directions matter. Therefore Trump is on his own, a legit target for assassins, being egged on daily. No one outside a small GOP subset will shed a tear. As MSM have shown, he is already responsible for violence against his supporters; if he gets killed, he had it coming.

If you had the chance to kill Hitler you would, wouldn't you? This is the objective of the Hitler-hurling left. Incite to murder in the name of changing the course of history. Vile and stupid people occupy the left.

Calling a nutjob's attempt to wrest a gun away from a cop in a room full of other cops an "assassination attempt" sort of takes the sting out of the phrase. How close did he actually get to killing him? If I fire a gun on my property, but shout Trump's name before I do it, does that also qualify?

Calling a nutjob's attempt to wrest a gun away from a cop in a room full of other cops an "assassination attempt" sort of takes the sting out of the phrase.

This guy traveled thousands of miles, stood in line for hours, paid to practice shooting the day before, and was in the room with Trump when he got his hands on a gun, all for the stated purpose of killing Trump. If that's not an assassination attempt, what the fuck is it?

"Calling a nutjob's attempt to wrest a gun away from a cop in a room full of other cops an "assassination attempt" sort of takes the sting out of the phrase. How close did he actually get to killing him? If I fire a gun on my property, but shout Trump's name before I do it, does that also qualify?"

-- No. That's exactly what it was. It was a poorly planned and thankfully failed attempt, but it was still an assassination attempt. I understand the left wants to de-legitimize violence against the right, but let's not try and pretend a thing that happened didn't happen because it wasn't close enough to successful for you.

To be a Salon subscriber, you have to believe that Sweet Cakes By Melissa caused a Muslim Democrat to massacre people in a gay bar while pledging allegiance to the Islamic state people who spend months calling Trump "Hitler" totes have nothing to do with feeding an autistic's delusions and leading someone to try to assassinate him.

And they are busy busy tweeting away to get two memes started, "#delete your account" and something like "#trumpsopoor" They live and are indoctrinated by Twitter. I see it every day--young people and lefties getting excited that they helped make something "trend." It's stupid and creepy, but that what they do, then "journalists" can report it.

The problem with Trump (while he's much better than dopey Rommey was--at least he's using Twitter to engage) is that his campaign does not have the groundwork set up to combat the incoming Tweets, or to advance ones he has started. Same with comment sections--legions of HC supporters infest them and Twitter. He needs to get this going, pronto.

I thought OGWiseman said... was an interesting take on the Trump assassination attempt so I looked at his blog.

Guess what I found ?

Is this a troll assault and will it get worse until November ?

So all Bush is doing in trying to present the appearance of candor is being less candid than when he was just a liar. After all, if everyone knows he is a liar, then he is candidly a liar. But now he is trying to be a liar who doesn't look like a liar, which is the least candid state possible.

Hey Laslo,Some of your comments remind me of an underground paper talking about Republicans. But you aren't just talking about Republicans - ARE YOU? Do you think you can just make jokes and remarks? DO YOU?

The guy who tried to kill him was inept. Trump is very skilled at riling up people. Trump's mouth is more powerful than a skinny little Brit who couldn't shoot straight. As I said he is his own worst enemy.

I feel Laslo is inciting confusion for unknown purposes or else he has no purposes and merely plays with words or else he's doing something else or else nothing. Laslo. Straighten up. Be obvious. Somewhere out there someone is bewildered. Listen to me, young man, and wipe that silly smirk off your face. Is it fair, is it right, is it the American way to be incomprehensible? [- almost - but yet I think he means ... but no, last week he said ...sometimes it's almost. No I refuse to try ... yet ... shampoo, snigger]

Trump is still rising in the polls. Will Seabiscuit pass the Eastern favorite?

When Trump was lower in the polls and losing, it was a knife. Now he's higher and still losing, it's a gun. When he completely loses and is being sworn in, it will be a bribe soaked in polonium. Only Hillary will get it - by "accident."

OK, this thread may be close to dead, but I just asked my wife about the attempted Trump assassination. She, who each morning calls down the latest news to me from the upstairs office computer, said she knew nothing about it. I said "Exactly! That's all you need to know about the people feeding you the news each day."